A measure of the change (i.e., increase or decrease) in the rate of a behavior over a period of time. Answers the question: How did the rate of behavior change… Read more

A measurement that directly summarizes the number of occurrences of a given response/behavior. Answers the question: How many times did the behavior occur, or how many of something were produced?

The measurable dimension of a behavior’s strength, force, intensity, and/or severity.

A measurement of behavior that represents its repeatability and countability.

A derived measure of behavior that depicts the proportional quantity of the number of times the behavior occurred out of the total number of opportunities for that behavior to occur

A derived measure of behavior that involves calculating the number of occurrences of a given response within a given period of time (e.g., number of mands per hour). Answers the

Measurement that describes a behavior’s physical form and shape.